EDITION 6 - March 2016 INSIDE THIS ISSUE ❖ Page 2 ❖ ❖ Swimming Gala ❖ Yr 9 Trip to UCLAN ❖ Page 3 ❖ ❖ Young Enterprise Programme ❖ Year 9 Blackburn Rovers Business Trip ❖ Runshaw & Clitheroe Colleges ❖ Page 4 ❖ ❖ Visit from Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst ❖ Our Battlefields Tour! ❖ Page 5 ❖ ❖ Yr 8 Manchester Imperial The Principal’s Welcome... War Museum Trip ❖ Page 6 ❖ Assalam ualaikum / Hello and welcome to our latest edition of Al Qalam (The Pen). ❖ ISA Trip to the Cenotaph & The last term at Tauheedul Boys’ has certainly been a busy one – nothing new Manchester Art Gallery there! How time flies; it only feels like yesterday our Year 10s were sitting their first ❖ Careers Convention GCSEs and now they’re in Year 11, preparing once more for their final exams. ❖ Page 7 ❖ ❖ Yr 9 – Enterprise Day The first set of GCSEs sat by our boys last year was We have also been fortunate over the last term to ❖ Yr 11 – Enterprise Day most encouraging and to use footballing analogies, welcome many motivational speakers to TIBHS such ❖ Yr 11 UCLAN Uni. Taster in a game of two halves, most of our boys come into as the world famous fashion designer Patrick Grant, ❖ Yr 10 Spring Trade Fair the first half in a commanding position, some are level the entrepreneur Josh Valman and the winner of ❖ Page 8 ❖ and have everything to play for, but none have lost the Apprentice 2014 Mark Wright. All of the speakers the game yet and that is a wonderful position to be in. stressed to our boys the importance of self-belief, ❖ Yr 7 – Residential ❖ hard work, determination, discipline and sacrifice if Qurbani Project The last term saw the opening of our new state of ❖ they are to be successful in their chosen careers Peer Mentoring the art ICT rooms, art facilities and wudu area which and indeed life. ❖ Page 9 ❖ has enhanced the curriculum and facilities for our ❖ Anti-Bullying Roadshow ‘15 learners. It is most heartening to hear from visitors We at Tauheedul Boys’ take great pride in recruiting ❖ Macmillan Event who have visited the site speak so highly of the and retaining the finest staff acquired, embracing ❖ Positive Parenting refurbishment of the site. Although this is a temporary their expertise and developing their craft, so it was ❖ ❖ site, we are determined that our learners have the best particularly pleasing that TIBHS became the first Page 10 experiences possible whilst they are with us at TIBHS. school within the Tauheedul Family to be recognised ❖ Of Mice & Men by Investors in People (IIP) as meeting the Gold Production Talking about experiences, our Year 7s have settled ❖ ‘A Christmas Carol’ Standard for IIP. into their new secondary school well. Many still ❖ Page 11 ❖ remember fondly the residential at the start of the I hope that you enjoy this latest edition of the Al – ❖ Visit from Mark Wright academic year as part of their transition process Qalam magazine and will remember the school in ❖ Visit from Josh Valman and I am sure the many stories they have from the your prayers. ❖ ‘Visit from Patrick Grant residential will stay with them for a very long time Mubaaruck Ibrahim ❖ ❖ – I am sure in years to come the staff will certainly Page 12 (Principal & Chief Executive) ❖ remind them of a few! The Annual Seerah Competition Tauheedul Islam Boys’ High School Magazine Swimming Gala On November 24th, the Year 7, 8 and 9 students arrived at QEG’s swimmers were made to compete in two heats before gaining pool to compete in the momentous annual swimming gala. The the much desired chance of swimming in the final. competitors, each individually selected by the former P.E coach Mr Matadar, had a colossal challenge at hand; opposing seven Despite the swimmers bold, brave and valiant efforts, it transpired other competing schools at the aforementioned venue. Added that Tauheedul finished seventh on the position board which to that, the swimmers were representing their whole year group proved a disappointment for the boys who truly gave it their all. so they had an immense amount of pressure on their shoulders. However as a school, we show gratitude for the boys admirable “The anxiety was real and the nerves were really stirring up attempts and are undoubtedly proud of the Tauheedul swimmers; butterflies,” elucidated Muhammed Saleh, a competitor at the they sacrificed their blood, sweat and tears representing us as a school. gala. “With all eyes on you, with the towering pressure on you, it was scary; some people even fell in the pool before the starting “We were quite dejected after the result-of course,” stated Naeem whistle, but it was all a joy at the same time.” Patel (also a competitor that evening). “But the atmosphere was just unbelievable! We felt incredibly motivated despite the lack The swimmers, in their groups of six, each selected a particular of quality in our performance. How all of us were cheering each stroke before taking to the pools and pushing their body to the other on, it was so amazing! There’s only one way to describe edge in an attempt to overcome the vast, difficult and fearsome that evening: a one of a kind experience.” challenge that stood in front of them. Ultimately, the annual gala was a huge success. An unbelievable However, due to the vast numbers of swimmers involved, the atmosphere; a breath-taking competition and a divergent and number of races was different for each stroke. The butterfly rare unification of several schools from across the Borough; the and breast stroke swimmers got right into it, with the first race gala was just something that does not come around very often. being the final. Despite this, the breast stroke and front stroke The evening was, inevitably, quite unforgettable. by Uwais Wadiwala Year 9 Trip to UCLAN In November a group of our Year 9 boys had the opportunity to visit UCLAN and take part in a Life on Mars workshop provided by the UK space agency. Students learnt how to develop and programme robotic rovers in an attempt to search for life on distant planets. They then searched for samples and had the opportunity to use state of the art equipment in a science laboratory to analyse their samples. The workshop gave our students a fantastic chance to use their scientific enquiry and investigative skills through an exciting area of discovery. The boys became very competitive and performed extremely well. ❖ Page 2 ❖ EDITION 6 - March 2016 ❖ Young Enterprise Programme Having won the ‘Dragons’ Den’ competition for TIBHS in market for revision guides aimed at students studying for their the Autumn term, the eleven determined members of team GCSE exams. The English subject, arguably the most imperative ‘Invictus’ are now more than ready to take on the nation GCSE one can have, is a case in point. Students now plan to in the ‘Young Enterprise Competition’. These individual create tailored books such as a guide to ‘A Christmas Carol’ members of the Young Enterprise Programme – each with all annotations and exam techniques included – a perfect budding entrepreneurs in their own right - have been revision resource. Through market research they had found exploring new ideas to produce a revolutionary product that literature books which are annotated and include all exam which is bound to ‘WOW’ the masses. Having taken up this techniques (similar to that which is available for other subjects) opportunity, they are now taking our school forward in are not available to students in English. ‘Invictus’ believe this enterprise, and eventually hope to make their mark in the could be tremendously beneficial to all GCSE English students. business world. Muhammed Suleman (Managing Director of team ‘Invictus’) told me ‘Small opportunities lead to great Over the next couple of months they will be working to enterprises, and this is an opportunity like no other’. make this idea a reality. They’ll have a lot to do; creating the product, managing finances, marketing and much more. They were each asked to bring ideas to the table and Pay attention to this column as it is only getting better and then decide on which ones they would take further. do make sure you read the next edition! When questioned the team told me that their preferred idea is by Faheem Issa, Year 10 more than a little revolutionary; they have found a gap in the Year 9 Blackburn Rovers Business Trip On Tuesday 6th October 2015, the Year 9 Business studies pupils had a tremendous and truly life changing experience on a visit to Blackburn Rovers. Ewood Park is much more than a football pitch; it is a diverse business with so many different functions of which all are highly rated. The trip was a real success and Year 9 loved it; including taking weird pictures and selfies! The pupils benefitted from the business trip as it gave them a deeper understanding of “business behind the scenes.” The team building activities were described as: “stimulating” by students on the trip that day. Muhammed Raeesh, 9M2 elaborated more on this by describing golden football trophies. Some people even managed to take the day as being “amazing, awesome and exciting.” a sneaky selfie in front of the famous sponsor board. On the whole, it was a really interesting and memorable event. Obviously, not all of it was breath-taking, it was the waiting that got us annoyed and not to mention only a 15 minute lunch Amaan Ismail, 9M2 commented “after long lessons, it was quite break. In fact, our hopes were set high on meeting some football a treat to get a tour of the stadium”.